Read 'em and weep
This week, I opened up the PDF volumes of the final report of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls national inquiry. It was released in 2019.
Volume 1a is available here. (It's 728 pages) Volume 1b is available here. (It's 352 pages)
I share it here to encourage all of us to set aside some time to dig into this.
And to give us a call: this is for us to explore.
This is new (2019). It's unique to Canada, and especially British Columbians. There are no other meme-makers to do this work for us to help us understand what is in here. It won't automatically swoosh downhill in a palatable wave of Instagram-memes, unless we are the ones helping make them.
The stories and heartache here in Canada remains trapped in 1000 PDF pages. This is not a good format for the internet.
If you find yourself to be a content specialist — someone who copywrites, makes memes, writes blogs, creates infographics, storytells, makes videos — consider this an invitation.
As you read it, consider sharing not…
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